- narrative - consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story; "narrative poetry"
Antonyms: uncommunicative, incommunicative (indirect, via communicative)
- narrative, narration, story, tale - a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program; "his narrative was interesting"; "Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children"
--1 is a kind of message, content, subject matter, substance
--1 has particulars:tearjerker; Canterbury Tales; tall tale; folktale, folk tale; sob story, sob stuff; fairytale, fairy tale, fairy story; nursery rhyme